... the monarchy in turn. In the congratulatory rhetoric that surrounded the event, the conservative, retiring queen emerged as the durable symbol of her dynamic, aggressively businesslike realm. In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. Etched by conflict with her prime ministers, the birth of nine children, and the early death of her beloved ... and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that t...

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... - and through the best part of her weakness you gave her the wounds she died of. There is the truth for your comfort, however you like it. And you and your instruments may make the most of it."" (Dickens 197). It is obvious to the reader as well as the characters in the story how Mr ... David again. Although Dickens does not relate his father to Mr. Murdstone, he does relate one character to his beloved father, Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens uses the character Mr. Micawber to relate to the reader the circumstances that Dickens himself experienced. Mr. Micawber was a man who loved to live a...

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• Grade Level: High School